Global economy and challenges for Pakistan
By Waqar Masood Khan Published in Business Recorder on November 03, 2022 The following two paragraphs from the World Economic Outlook, October 2022, neatly sum up the challenges facing the global economy: “Global economic activity is experiencing a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown, with inflation higher than seen in several decades. […]
Survey paints gloomy picture
By Usman Hanif Published in The Express Tribune on November 02, 2022 KARACHI: Continued political and economic unrest in Pakistan has disillusioned entrepreneurs increasingly about the future prospects of their businesses. According to a Gallup Pakistan survey conducted in the last quarter of 2022 for the Gallup Business Confidence Index,[…]
Empty coffers
By Rafia Zakaria Published in DAWN on November 02, 2022 IN recent years, as Pakistan has hurtled from one catastrophe to another, remittances sent by Pakistani workers living abroad have been a source of some small amount of stability. When foreign investments have seemed scant and aid packages have dried[…]
Reviving CPEC: road to prosperity
By Ahsan Iqbal Published in The News on November 02, 2022 Initiated in 2013 by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was conceived and designed as the flagship project of the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Aimed primarily at[…]








